Green Island

　　美國亞馬遜網站2016年2月選書

　　獨立書商協會2016年3月選書

　　誠品書店2016年3月外文選書



　　造成問題的，是沉默，而非話語。

　　事實的真相為何？存活下來的人，是幸運的？抑或是不幸的開端？



　　一九四七年二月二十八日，一場抗爭撼動了台北城，整座城市進入戒嚴狀態。而我，是在鎮壓的第一晚出生。

　　接下來幾個星期，國民黨開始強力鎮壓反對聲浪，

　　每天、每個家都有男人開始失蹤，

　　一九四七年三月十四日，我的父親失蹤了……



　　十年後，一個陌生男人敲響我家大門。是我失蹤的父親。而這個家，因他的歸來掀起另一風波。



　　父親的回來象徵著什麼？他做了哪種惡魔式的交易？他是叛徒，還是是複雜的英雄？而當權者又答應拿什麼來和父親交換？



　　時空橫誇六十年、步履遍及台灣與美國；經歷二二八、戒嚴、中美斷交、白色恐怖、解嚴到SARS。藉由身繫囹圄、抑鬱無奈的父親、堅毅不拔的母親、試圖拯救家人們遠離迫害的女兒，如何在各自的堅強與磨難中，面對威權的脅迫、禁制、監控和逃亡，以及人性的背叛猜疑中掙扎。



　　這本書很黑暗，但我認為，它終究還是傳遞了希望的訊息，讓人們知道改變是可能的。──楊小娜



　　*本書中譯本<<綠島>>由印刻出版

BEST BOOK AWARD IN FICTION BY THE ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES - A stunning, lyrical novel that tells ＂the story of how the Tsais, a Taiwanese family, survive the ’February 28 Incident’ of 1947 and precariously navigate the decades that follow＂ (The New York Times).

As an uprising rocks Taiwan, a young doctor in Taipei is taken from his newborn daughter by Chinese Nationalists, on charges of speaking out against the government. Although the doctor eventually returns to his family, his arrival is marked by alienation from his loved ones and paranoia among his community.

Years later, this troubled past follows his youngest daughter to America, where, as a mother and a wife, she too is forced to decide between what is right and what might save her family--the same choice she witnessed her father make many years before.

The story of a family and a nation grappling with the nuances of complicity and survival, Green Island raises the question: how far would you go for the ones you love?

作者簡介

楊小娜（Shawna Yang Ryan）

　　曾任傅爾布萊特學者，著有小說《水鬼》（Water Ghosts），目前在夏威夷大學馬諾阿分校教創意寫作課程。她的短篇故事曾經刊登於《ZYZZYVA》藝文雜誌、《亞裔美國人文學評論》、《Kartika評論》、《柏克萊小說評論》。現居檀香山。

　 　SHAWNA YANG RYAN is a former Fulbright scholar and the author of "Water Ghosts" (Penguin Press 2009) and "Green Island" (Knopf 2016). She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Her short fiction has appeared in ZYZZYVA, The Asian American Literary Review, Kartika Review, and The Berkeley Fiction Review. She is the 2015 recipient of the Elliot Cades Emerging Writer award. Originally from California, she now lives in Honolulu.

　　@shawnayangryan
　　www.shawnayangryan.com